No action taken despite 2007 discovery of searchable male DNA profile on rape victim’s top that did not match Malkinson’s
- Rape, DNA and injustice: a timeline of the Andrew Malkinson case
Police and prosecutors in the Andrew Malkinson case knew there was another man’s DNA on the victim’s clothes in 2007 – three years after he was wrongly convicted of rape – but he remained in prison for another 13 years.
Malkinson was cleared by the appeal court last month after spending 17 years in prison for a 2003 rape he did not commit. His exoneration came after fresh DNA testing linked another man to the crime.
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